Dr. Fahmida Mirza فہمیدہ مرزا
18th Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan
Incumbent
Assumed office  March 19, 2008
President	Asif Ali Zardari
Prime Minister	Yousaf Raza Gillani
Preceded by	Chaudhry Amir Hussain
Member of National Assembly
Born	December 20, 1956 (1956-12-20) (age 53) Badin, Sindh
Political party	Pakistan Peoples Party
Religion	Islam

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Dr. Fahmida Mirza (Urdu: فہمیدہ مرزا ), sometimes also spelled as Fehmida Mirza (born December 20, 1956), is a medical doctor, agriculturist and businesswoman from Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan who was elected as the first female Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan on March 19, 2008.^[1] She is also the first female parliamentary speaker in the Muslim world,^{[citation needed]}.

She has been elected to Parliament for three consecutive terms in 1997, 2002 and 2008 as MNA from Badin, in Sindh. Dr. Mirza graduated with a medical degree from Liaquat Medical College, Jamshoro, Sindh, in 1982 and did her house job (residency) in gynaecology and paediatrics.

Contents 1 Family 2 Career 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Family

Fahmida Mirza hails from a Sindhi-speaking Shia Muslim political family in Sindh, the Qazis of Hyderabad. Her Grandfather, Qazi Abdul Qayyum, was the first Muslim president of Hyderabad Municipality. Her father, Qazi Abdul Majeed Abid (Qazi Abid) held different ministries in the provincial (Sindh) and federal cabinets from 1982 to 1990 including Provincial Minister for Communication, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture, Federal Minister for Education, and Federal Minister for Water and Power. Her Uncle, Qazi Mohammad Akbar, was also a long serving Provincial Minister in Sindh, including serving as Provincial Home Minister. Dr. Mirza is married to Dr. Zulfikar Ali Mirza, a close friend of Asif Ali Zardari who is the co-Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party. Both her husband and her brother, the renowned journalist, Qazi Asad Abid, are former Members of the National Assembly.^[2] Zulfikar Mirza is also currently a member of the Sindh Provincial Assembly and Provincial Home Minister. She is also the aunt of Pir Mazhar Ul Haq, a three time Provincial Sindh Minister and current member and leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party in the Sindh Provincial Assembly, who is related to the influential Sindhi political family through his mother. Pir Mazhar is currently the Senior Minister in the Sindh Cabinet with the portfolio of Education.

[edit] Career

She was trained as a doctor at Liaquat Medical College, Jamshoro, Sindh, in 1982. Before entering politics, Dr. Fahmida Mirza ran an advertising agency Informachine, later renamed Information Communication Limited (ICL). In 1997 she contested elections successfully from her husband's former constituency of Badin, Sindh, and has continued to be a parliamentarian since then. She is one of the few women elected from a non-reserved constituency.

[edit] See also

• Marvi Mazhar
• Pakistan Peoples Party
• Pir Mazhar Ul Haq
• Politics of Pakistan
• Qazi Abdul Majeed Abid
• Qazis of Hyderabad

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Fehmida set to make history as ‘Madam Speaker’

Political offices
Preceded by Chaudhry Amir Hussain	Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan 2008 – present	Incumbent

v • d • e Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah · Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan · Abdul Wahab Khan · Fazlul Qadir Chaudhry · Abdul Jabbar Khan · Zulfikar Ali Bhutto · Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry · Sahibzada Farooq Ali · Malik Meraj Khalid · Syed Fakhar Imam · Hamid Nasir Chattha · Gohar Ayub Khan · Yousaf Raza Gillani · Elahi Bux Soomro · Chaudhry Amir Hussain · Fahmida Mirza